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Fantasia Film Review: Fuku-chan of FukuFuku Flats

From the outside, it can seem like cinema and television in Japan are dominated by samurais, Manga adaptations, limp romantic comedies and period dramas. However, there’s a weird and often…

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Fantasia Festival Review: The Mortuary Collection

If you want to make a good horror film then it’s important to choose a suitable backdrop. Cabins in woods and very old houses are particular favourites with genre filmmakers…

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Fantasia Festival Review: Feels Good Man

Anyone who spends time on the internet, especially on social media or somewhere like 4Chan, will know what a meme is. If you would have told me 20 years ago…

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Fantasia Festival Review: Clapboard Jungle

The internet is an unforgiving place at the best of times. For every person championing a new film there seems to be five others intent on pulling it down. Nowhere…

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Fantasia Festival Review: Free Country

It has become commonplace today for American studios to remake successful films from around the world. As we’re sadly all too aware, it usually doesn’t end well. The list of…

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Fantasia Festival Review – The Columnist

In the beginning, the internet was a magic and mysterious place. A place where you could connect with people around the world at the touch of a button. Where information…

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Fantasia Festival Review: Sleep

(If we’re lucky) We spend a significant proportion of our lives asleep. To function properly, it is estimated that an adult requires between seven to nine hours of sleep per…

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Fantasia Festival Review: Fried Barry

Drugs are bad for you. Fairly obvious, I know, but it’s a fact that is regularly being reinforced by cinema. The Hollywood narrative is such that characters who are addicts…

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Fantasia Festival Review: Yummy

Whilst cosmetic surgery feels like something which should have stayed in the 20th century, it’s still as popular as ever today. Our obsession with perfection and eternal youth is even…

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Fantasia Festival Preview

Since its inauguration back in 1996, Montreal’s Fantasia International Film Festival has been pushing boundaries by showcasing the best in new international genre cinema. Now in its 24th year, the…

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